Not all that long ago, we always looked forward to the West Highland Free Press and, especially, its Editorial column. Those Editorials were always clever, sharp-witted and amusing and reflected, without fail, how we, here, in the West Highlands, saw things simply from living here. The Daily Mail, it was not.
However, nothing stands still, even for the West Highland Free Press, and, nowadays, despite being at one time on the same general political wavelength, we find that we disagree with the Editorial almost as often as not.
We comment on this again because of today's WHFP's Editorial of "Backroom Bobbies Commanded From The Lowlands". Frankly, we can make neither head nor tail of its logic and, from our point of view, it confirms only how the WHFP has, sadly, lost its way, rather like a drunk who is very unsure of the way home.
Quite what prompted such a savage assault on the new Police Service of Scotland we cannot say, at least at this stage. However, to describe the existing Northern Constabulary as "praiseworthy" is off-beam altogether and a grave injustice to many with perfectly legitimate complaints against that same organisation. Try telling the McLeods of Wick whose son, Kevin, was cruelly murdered at Wick harbour some years ago, and when Northern police officers fell almost criminally foul of neglect of duty, that Northern Constabulary is worthy of praise?
If the new Chief Constable of Scotland, Stephen House, is to have any credibility, and if cases can be investigated as far back as fifty years, he will investigate, as a priority, the case of Kevin McLeod.
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